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Recueil de desseins à la plume de composition et d'après l'antique...multipliés par l'art de Polytype.
Recueil de differentes compositions, frises et ornements
Recueil de compositions
Recueil de desseins à la plume de composition et d'après l'antique...multipliés par l'art de Polytype.
About 1760–84
Place of Publication: Paris, France
Medium/Technique
Bound album with 30 etchings, some with aquatint, some printed in colors
Dimensions
Overall: 41.5 x 29.7 x 1.8 cm (16 5/16 x 11 11/16 x 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Ellen Page Hall Fund
Accession Number34.846
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CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Paris [and elsewhere]: Chez l'auteur et chez Basan [about 1760-1784]
Catalogue Raisonné
Guilmard p.264; Berlin 493; Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire 18th cen., vol. 12, pp. 306-318
Description(Paris [and elsewhere]: Chez l'auteur et chez Basan [about 1760-1784]) Folio; 25 leaves; contemporary green paper boards.
Decorative compositions in the antique taste; original and reproductive religious and mythological compositions.
Decorative compositions in the antique taste; original and reproductive religious and mythological compositions.
ProvenanceNiodot "Marchand Papetier des Académies Royales," place du vieux Louvre, Paris [active during 1790s; original printed label on front pastedown]; Georges Mathias, Paris, from whom purchased by MFA, October 4, 1934.